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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Songs to Remember is the debut album by the British post-punk/new wave pop group Scritti Politti. The album's recording had to be delayed for nine months due to frontman Green Gartside's collapse and illness, and then after completion its release was delayed for a further year at the band's request. It was eventually released on Rough Trade Records on 3 September 1982, reaching number 12 on the UK albums chart. The album's lead single and best known track, "The Sweetest Girl", was recorded and released as a single by British pop group Madness, reaching number 35 on the UK singles chart in 1986.The album was heavily influenced by 1960s and 1970s funk, disco and soul music, and marked the start of Scritti Politti's move from their underground DIY ethic towards making commercial pop music and their mainstream and international breakthrough with the follow-up album Cupid & Psyche 85 three years later. Although Songs to Remember and the three singles taken from it were not the big hits that Green had hoped for, the album was acclaimed by the critics and featured on many lists of the best albums of 1982. It remains a highly regarded record: in 1989 the British music magazine Record Mirror placed it at number 14 in their critics' list of the best albums of the 1980s, and it was included in journalist Garry Mulholland's book Fear of Music: The 261 Greatest Albums Since Punk and Disco where he described the record as "a unique and modestly epic fusion of pop, reggae, funk, soul, jazz and lyrics submerged in the deep end of political philosophy".The Scottish pop group Wet Wet Wet took their name from a line in the track "Gettin' Havin' & Holdin'" – "it's tired of joking... wet, wet with tears"."@en }

• Q3490400 abstract "Songs to Remember is the debut album by the British post-punk/new wave pop group Scritti Politti. The album's recording had to be delayed for nine months due to frontman Green Gartside's collapse and illness, and then after completion its release was delayed for a further year at the band's request. It was eventually released on Rough Trade Records on 3 September 1982, reaching number 12 on the UK albums chart. The album's lead single and best known track, "The Sweetest Girl", was recorded and released as a single by British pop group Madness, reaching number 35 on the UK singles chart in 1986.The album was heavily influenced by 1960s and 1970s funk, disco and soul music, and marked the start of Scritti Politti's move from their underground DIY ethic towards making commercial pop music and their mainstream and international breakthrough with the follow-up album Cupid & Psyche 85 three years later. Although Songs to Remember and the three singles taken from it were not the big hits that Green had hoped for, the album was acclaimed by the critics and featured on many lists of the best albums of 1982. It remains a highly regarded record: in 1989 the British music magazine Record Mirror placed it at number 14 in their critics' list of the best albums of the 1980s, and it was included in journalist Garry Mulholland's book Fear of Music: The 261 Greatest Albums Since Punk and Disco where he described the record as "a unique and modestly epic fusion of pop, reggae, funk, soul, jazz and lyrics submerged in the deep end of political philosophy".The Scottish pop group Wet Wet Wet took their name from a line in the track "Gettin' Havin' & Holdin'" – "it's tired of joking... wet, wet with tears".".